II Artwork - Nicholson's Walk The fallen string and checkerboard

The fallen string and checkerboard motifs are improvisations that came to Thomas while he was stitching the original pill

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What could easily have been a very gauche result was in the end so beautiful it became the inspiration first for an opulent fabric made with Italian velvet and silk

The Crocodile cushion is one such creation

A pastoral setting unfolds across the design

II Artwork - Nicholson's Walk The fallen string and checkerboardA visual evocation of an imagined day in the life of English abstract painter Ben Nicholson. The undulating landscape of the Cornish coastline is rendered in a modernist, colour led composition, drawing on his celebrated series of St Ives landscapes. Mixed media on canvas. Framed in fumed, oiled and waxed oak.